Ambassador Adawi: Sudan Will Not Accept Any Agreement Failing to Meet Set Standards
Cairo -Sudanhorizon – Sabah Moussa
The Sudanese Ambassador to Egypt, Imad El-Din Adawi, has affirmed that the Sudanese government will not be involved in any peace agreement or truce that fails to meet the standards as set in the Jeddah platform Declaration.
Adawi told a press briefing at his residence, on Sunday, that the final say on this matter rests with the Sudanese people, who have suffered at the hands of the militias.
He highlighted the crimes and violations committed by the Rapid Support Forces militias in El Fasher, pointing to the large waves of displacement from El Fasher to Tawila, a small city in dire need of assistance to support such a large influx.
He questioned who is arming and supplying the militias with money and equipment, asking what the Security Council has done to prevent this genocide, and how one can equate those who defend citizens with those who kill them.
The Sudanese ambassador explained that humanitarian aid is now being used as a weapon, noting that the Sudanese government had responded to demands to open the Adré border crossing with Chad. Aid was reaching the town of Tawila, about 14 kilometers from El Fasher, but the militia was preventing its entry.
He questioned what harm it would have done international humanitarian organizations to deliver this aid to El Fasher. He stated that after the recent events, approximately 500,000 citizens fled El Fasher to the Tawila area, which now houses about 1.5 million people.
He emphasized that no serious ceasefire proposal has been put forward, and reiterated the Sudanese government’s position that there is no room for negotiation with this terrorist group.
The Sudanese army also affirmed that, given the international community’s failure to fulfill its obligations, it will continue to carry out its constitutional duty to protect citizens and restore stability, as it did in Khartoum, Gezira, Sinnar, and White Nile.
The ambassador explained that on October 26, the terrorist militia launched its large-scale attack on El Fasher, using internationally banned nerve gas, along with heavy shelling, penetrating the city’s neighborhoods with armored vehicles and infantry, completely cutting off communications to the city, and jamming communications between the division and its operational commanders.
He said that in order to preserve the lives of civilians trapped inside El Fasher and the safety of their property and public property in the city, the division’s command made the decision to withdraw out of the city to other locations.
He added that with the militia’s entry into the city, the implementation of a plan that the militia’s leaders had been announcing and threatening began; which was to target and commit genocide against the residents of El Fasher, especially those belonging to specific tribes and communities.
We would like to emphasize that what has happened and is still happening in El Fasher is not an isolated incident, as the militia is trying to portray it. Rather, it is a continuation and intensification of the same heinous approach the militia has adopted in every area it has entered, from the neighborhoods of Omdurman to the villages of Gezira, Sinnar, and White Nile regions, and in El Geneina against the Masalit.
He stressed that the militia is actually structured on claims of racial supremacy and racism, and it views fellow citizens as lesser beings deserving of brutality and murder in the most horrific ways.
The ambassador stated that since October 26, militia members have been filmed taking pleasure in killing, torturing, and humiliating unarmed civilians, including women, men, children, the elderly, and the wounded.
This was accompanied by the looting of civilian property, including the theft of phones, money, and identity documents. He added that what is being shown is merely a drop in the ocean of massacres and violations committed by the militia against citizens.
The footage that has reached the world is only what has been circulated by specific individuals within the militia on certain platforms, while the vast majority of what has happened and continues to happen remains hidden behind a veil of censorship and media blackout.
Adawi revealed that some preliminary information from various sources, amid the complete blackout of communication and internet networks in El Fasher and its surroundings, indicates that waves of displaced people, estimated at about 28,000 people, arrived in Tawila city during the first 24 hours following the militia’s entry into El Fasher.
He said that most of them are suffering trauma and malnutrition to varying degrees, as well as the effects of wounds and beatings. About 1,000 of them are suffering from deteriorating health conditions, and about 750 children are suffering from acute malnutrition, while another 318 children need urgent psychological intervention, in addition to 465 other people who need urgent medical intervention.
He added that sources confirmed the execution of about 2,700 people up to October 28, but all sources agree that the numbers may be much higher, including about 2,000 who died during the first hours of the militia’s entry into the city.
He furether pointed out that the Sudanese Doctors Syndicate also indicated that about 1,200 elderly, wounded, and sick people were liquidated or died inside field health facilities.
Darfur Associations in the UK cite figures as high as 6,000 deaths, noting that other estimates suggest between 170,000 and 250,000 civilians remain trapped inside the city, some of whom are likely to have been subjected to mass killings or arson. Evidence continues to emerge of civilians being killed and burned alive in their homes and vehicles.
Meanwhile, Adawi praised Egypt’s support for Sudanese unity, emphasizing that Egypt is one of the few countries that recognizes the existence of entities aiming to fragment the nation-state and is deeply committed to the unity and security of Sudan. He stated that Egypt’s position supports Sudanese unity, pointing out its rejection of any parallel entity in Sudan, and reiterating that Egypt’s stance is supportive of Sudanese unity.
The Sudanese ambassador further stressed that what has happened and is happening in El Fasher goes beyond armed conflict and constitutes war crimes, crimes against humanity, and organized genocide, in flagrant violation of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
He stated that the Sudanese government calls on the international community to take immediate and effective action that goes beyond statements of condemnation to concrete measures, including designating the Rapid Support Forces militia as a terrorist organization according to international standards.
In his statement he also addressed the issue of armed groups that practice terrorism against civilians, adding a clear and explicit condemnation of the Rapid Support Forces militia for committing massacres amounting to genocide, and condemning its official regional financier and supporter, the United Arab Emirates, and behind them other local, regional, and international powers.
The ambassadlor called for exerting pressure on them to stop the funding and logistical support that directly contributed to these crimes, calling for holding accountable those responsible for the massacres, the militia leaders, and their supporters through an independent and impartial international investigation under the auspices of the United Nations and the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court.
Ambassador Adawi also called for pressure to deliver humanitarian aid immediately through safe corridors and to ensure the urgent arrival of relief.
He went onto call for imposing an immediate arms embargo on the Rapid Support Forces militia and preventing any military or financial support from reaching it, and for taking urgent measures to protect civilians, including the establishment of safe humanitarian corridors, and imposing strict and urgent measures on the aggressor and its financiers, holding the international community and the Security Council morally and legally responsible for preventing the continuation of this genocide and holding its perpetrators accountable.
He stressed the roles of local, regional and international media in exposing the violations and crimes of the rebel Rapid Support Forces militia in El Fasher and other areas.
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